This is just a quick one as I’m working hard on a big migration at the moment, but I’m sure it will come in handy in the future and with others. So we were having problems with the EBS disk being full, so I decided to up the disk space. The process is really quite simple.

Login to AWS -> EC2

Shut down your EC2 instance

Click Snapshots on the left hand side and create a snapshot of your main root ebs volume

Once completed, click volumes on the left and create a new volume (with the new disk size and the snapshot you just created)

On the volumes page, make a note of the disk location (probably /dev/sda1)